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مجالس الابرار ومسالك الاخيار ومحائق البدع ومقامع الاشرار
Majālis al-abrār wa-masālik al-akhyār wa-maḥāʼiq al-bidaʻ wa-maqāmiʻ al-ashrār.
1637
One hundred assemblies, consisting of traditions from the Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah by al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd al-Baghawī (d. 516/1122) with paraenetic commentary. See table of contents in preamble (fol. 4a-6b). The text is preceded by a short text entitled Manājāt Abū Saʻūd Efendi and several excerpts from Mishkāt al-anwār, written by a later hand (fol. 1b-2b).
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One hundred assemblies, consisting of traditions from the Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah by al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd al-Baghawī (d. 516/1122) with paraenetic commentary. See table of contents in preamble (fol. 4a-6b). The text is preceded by a short text entitled Manājāt Abū Saʻūd Efendi and several excerpts from Mishkāt al-anwār, written by a later hand (fol. 1b-2b).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- مجالس الابرار ومسالك الاخيار ومحائق البدع ومقامع الاشرار
- Transliterated Title
- Majālis al-abrār wa-masālik al-akhyār wa-maḥāʼiq al-bidaʻ wa-maqāmiʻ al-ashrār.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 2178
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcn296x875m
- Publisher
- [1637]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1637
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 349 leaves: paper ; 206 x 148 (165 x 95) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership statement with seal, in the name of al-Ḥājj Ḥusayn ibn Sayf Allāh, dated Bghjah Saray 1250 H. [1834 or 5] (fol. 2a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 622
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 364 (6/1. Cmtre f) ; SI
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from preamble (fol. 4a, l. 11-12).
- Incipit: الحمد لله الذى رفع اقدار العلماء بمقدار معرفة كتابه المحكم ثم هدى المحدثين بمصابيح السنة ... وبعد هذا المكتوب بالقلم شرح لبعض صحاح المعظم
- Explicit: لان الرضاء شرط فى لزوم المال وسقوطه والاكراه يعدم الرضاء على ما بين فى موضعه
- Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red for headings and overlining. The text is framed within a single red line. Thick European paper with watermark. Fol. 1a consists on a free endpaper pasted on the recto of a first later added fol. Fol. 3 consists of a later added leaf pasted on the recto of the first fol. of the text. Inscriptions are visible by transparency. Occasional marginal annotations, mainly excerpts from Mishkāt al-anwār and Tabyīn al-maḥārim. Inscription in Arabic on fol. 1a, on the virtues of reading the Qurʼān. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on fol. 7a).
- Origin: Copy completed by Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd Allāh in the middle of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1046 [May 1637], on a Friday, between the two prayers (colophon, fol. 341b).
- Binding Note
- Marbled paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Brown leather spine and fore-edge flap. Dark gold paper pastedown and free endpaper, gold sparkled.
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- File Count
- 706
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9eca8be7-ed75-4bef-addc-88495a9dafce/manifest